The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-04-08
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During the year 1886 taxes wer
paid on 3,5l0,S9S,5SS cigars in thi
country.
In most large cities they have pres
clubs, but Philadelphia has q Journal
lists Club.
The merchants of Savannah. Ga.
propose adopting business hours ex
tending from 9 a. IN. to 6 p. m.
The first temperance society in thi
country was organized in SaratOg
county, New York, in March, 1908.
Locomotives now run i'm Jerusalem
and the shrill steam whistle is heard il
the streets once trod by King David.
London society has no further us,
for Oscar Wilde, and this is why he ha
discontinued making fool Of himself
The city of Mazatlan. Mexico, il
spending Sl2 day for the mainten
ance of the Cinnamon out of work a
that port.
King Kalakaua, of the Hawaiian Is
lands, has gambled away $74, 900 de-
posted by poor people in the Posta
Savings Bank.
+. w. Kcnnie, of San Francisco
says that city has 800 young womer
who are heiresses to $780, or more
each, and all are unmarried.
The Rev. DIR. Barbour, pastor of Val,
University, finding himself unable
longer to .'hold'' a student congrega.
ton, has rendered his resignation, to
take effect next June.
A Japanese has invented a method
of weaving carpets with feathers. The
feathers are reduced to a silky state by
the use of chemicals, and then woven
like ordinary cotton.
A new employment for woman ID
suggested by a person who does moi
see why they should not tune their own
piano, and also find suitable and re-
munerative work in tuning the pianos
of others. ..
"Featherbone, an article prepared
from the quilts of geese and turkeys, is
largely taking the place of whalebone
in the manufacture of whips, etc., for
which whalebone was formerly used ex-
clusively.
Alma Tadema, the artist, has fitted
up a new house at London in a queer
fashion. Its exterior presents in little
bits nearly all the styles of all the ages,
from the days of classic glory to the
present time.
The sultan of Morocco has had his
feelings hurt by the Obstinacy of the
press in complaining of the continued
sale OF young girls in his dominions.
He wants editors bowstringed and the
newspaper business in Tangiers wiped
out.
A resident of Palatka, Fla, has in
vented a sewing machine that promi-
ses to do great things. The attach
ment consists of a number of wires so
arranged that scraps of cloth are sewed
on base i'm substantial manner, and
rugs, trimmings, lambrequins, ETC.,
can be made very rapidly.
At Montreal, one day recently, wo-
man rushed into the police station and
asked if any stray children had been
found by the police, and was informed
that there were five in the different
stations, whereupon she exclaimed:
81 have lost seven! Where are the
other twOp"
SSanauschek, the actress, is a victim
of the thirteen" superstition. Dur
ing-her recent engagement at Indian
apolis she refused to occupy room hav-
ing the mystic number above the door,
sxclaiming: '.Mein Got! you want to
kill mer' and no persuasion could In
duce her to be quartered therein.
Mr.. Joseph w. Drexel, who has re-
tired from business and lives comforta-
bly, on his accumulated fortune in New
York, began life on salary of III a
week. He spent Is cents of his first
weeks earnings for box of water
colors, and now in later years exer.
cises the same early taste for pictures
as an accomplished amateur photo.
grapher.
The entire lower part of an unsinka-
BILE life-boat recently patented is filled
with slabs of cork. Above this is q
filling of rushes, set up vertically and
having their ends rendered waterproof
Above the cork and rlsies is a water.
tight deck, which separates the lower
half of the boat from the upper half,
where seats are provided for crew and
passengers.
A professional hunter in Calcasieu
parish, Louisiana, reports that he kill.
ed i'm two days and a half. hunting
about four hours each day, 226 snipe,
26 prairie hens, and 81 ducks. He
realizes quite handsome sum from
the sale of the game he kills, the
greater part of which he ships to New
Orleans. From sixty-six days hunting
last season he Melted $511 clear Of ex.
penses.
Mr.. Lowers, of Woods Run, Pa,
owns one of the oldest family bibles in
this country, he having received il
from his wife, who inherited it from
her mother, Sarah Young, who also in
herited it from her mother, Mrs. Sarah
Mccormick, who inherited it from Mrs.
Judson, whose maiden name was Annie
Emerson. This bible was dedicated to
King James of England, and published
in 1884, being now 252 years old.
The Gar of Russia is physically the
strongest man in Europe. When he
was Czarowitz he one day took gold
ruble in his hands and by main strength
twisted it into corkscrew. Throwing
the mutilated coin at the Project OF
Police, he said: IF you open one of
my letters i'm the future Twill treat you
as / have this COIN" The incident was
the outcome of an order on the part OF
the Car that all letters should be open
ed by the police.
A letter from French Deputy who
is intimate with Boulanger contains the
following passage in answer to in
quiries concerning the general: "He
believes the time has come, and that
France is able now to vanquish Ger
many. He sees himself at the head of
France, winning back her glory, and
nothing but the satisfaction of revers-
ing the scene of Sedan and of taking a
sword from the head of the German
army will ever content him."
Amid the frantic gyrations at re-
cent dance in a New England town a
woman's hustle fell on the floor. Her
partner essayed to convey it deity to
one side of the room with his foot. but
the kick miscarried. and dispatched il
to the middle of the hall. From there
other dancers set it spinning, and it
gradually unrolled. revealing what it
was, woman's skirt. Some confusion
resulted fur n while. "a each fair